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Today, Orange Belgium has announced that it has began negotiations with Nethys for the acquisition of a 75% stake, minus one share, in fixed line operator VOO. The deal values VOO at around €1.8 billion. VOO’s network is situated primarily in Wallonia, the French-speaking southern half of Belgium, along with a significant presence in the nation&rsquo… read more on TotalTele.com...

CityFibre has today announced that they’ve committed £21 million to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to homes and businesses in the Lincolnshire (England) city of Lincoln, which is home to a total population of around 95,000 (including the borough area). Construction work on the new full fibre network is currently planned […]

Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is the virtual operator sibling of Vodafone UK, has today begun offering customers the option of buying a cheaper “refurbished” smartphone alongside bundles with their various 4G and 5G capable mobile (mobile broadband) plans. The move will save consumers money and reduce electronic waste. We should point out that all […]

Mobile operator Lyca Mobile, which is powered by an MVNO agreement with O2’s national network, has joined the bandwagon of Black Friday discounts by reducing the price of their two 4G based unlimited data (mobile broadband) plans by 50% for the first six months of service (available to order until midnight on 30th November 2021). […]

UK ISP Plusnet has today introduced new “Black Friday” focused discounts on their Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) based broadband and phone packages, which further reduce their monthly prices for the first 18 months of service and boost the bundled “Reward Card” (pre-paid Mastercard) to £75. As usual these offers are only available to new customers, […]

Tell us about your start up PLINX is a safety system designed to make construction sites safer. The system protects construction workers and employers by restricting access based on role and purpose to areas of hazardous activity. We create reliable and easy to deploy network infrastructure that connects people, plant and places without reliance on third parties. We deliver this data to you to positively Affect the safety, security and quality… read more on TotalTele.com...

Alternative UK ISP Swish Fibre has continued their “fake fibre” related advertising feud with BT today after they lodged a retaliatory complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which objected to the “confusing” use of the term “fibre broadband” in the incumbents marketing for their “part-fibre” (FTTC) products. The situation began in July 2021, after […]

“In the future we will target the 6GHz band as we see it very important for our future capacity needs and growth in Europe. The upper part of the 6GHz band is available which we believe is ideal for network operators to evolve network capacity beyond 2028 and 2030. In the future we do believe that 6GHz will complement our 3.5GHz spectrum asset,” says Nadia Benabdallah, Network Strategy and Engineering Director, Vodafone at the recently concluded Mobile Broadband Forum 2021. Vodafone, one of...

In the past few years, telcos’ shift to the cloud has been increasingly steadily, but is it moving fast enough? For Optiva CEO John Giere, there is still a long way to go for the telecoms industry, with operators taking the process step by step. “Typically no more than 15% of them have done greater than 25% of their workloads to move to the cloud… read more on TotalTele.com...

Tell us about VAAL AIrships VAAL Airships OÜ is a deep-tech startup, working on creating a physical High Altitude Pseudo Satellite platform in order to offer radically improved Earth observability and special connectivity services. The High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS) that VAAL develops have the potential to replace satellites – enabling many climate monitoring solutions and connectivity while significantly reducing ecological footprint doing so. A digital twin of the earth can be built...